The objective of the website is to provide a support for Programming tools in data science given at the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne) of the University of Lausanne in Fall 2018. This course is intended to provide an introduction to programming using the R language. It will also provide students with notions of data management, manipulation and analysis as well as of reproducible research, result-sharing and version control (using GitHub). At the end of the class, student should be able to construct their own R package, make it available on GitHub, document it using literate programming and render it visible by making a website.
This class is based on the textbook: “An Introduction to Statistical Programming Methods with R” , which is available here: http://r.smac-group.com. This document is under development and it is therefore preferable to always access the text online to be sure you are using the most up-to-date version.
This class uses the ptds2018 R package (and its dependencies). To install this package you can run the following commands in R. Make sure to continuously update package every week, for we are adding new functions and instructions every day.
# Install dependencies
install.packages("devtools")
# Install/Update the package from GitHub
devtools::install_github("SMAC-Group/ptds2018")